Back in the day blogs were considered pretty exotic. They covered everything from knitting to Star Wars and were more often than not very, very personal. A decade or so later and blogs are still pretty personal but they’re not longer quite so exotic. Seems like everyone has a blog these days and everyone reads blogs.
I myself follow 40+ blogs. Some blogs are by my friends or various people I find interesting while the rest are news blogs or blogs related to the industry I work in. And, of course, I follow quite a few blogs about electronic music so I can keep up to date.
The problem is that blogs are like music: 99% of it is crap. Either the writing is terrible or I completely disagree with what most of the blogs are covering. Not so with Headphone Commute, which is a blog I love.
I’ve been reading Headphone Commute for a couple of years now and for good reason. Headphone Commute covers the music I care about and exposes me to music I’ve never heard of before. The album reviews and label profiles are spot on. Headphone Commute does interviews are concise and to the point with everyone from Frank Riggio to Rena Jones.
If you’re looking for a quality blog to read about electronic music then I can’t recommend Headphone Commute enough and it is with great pleasure that I present to you a mix from Headphone Commute.
The mix is called DSM-IV-TR, which is short for Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which was republished in the 4th text revision back in 2000. Headphone Commute’s mix will take us from moody IDM to glitch to techno to drum and bass to dubstep and to music that defies genres. If you want to hear today’s mix without listening to me babble click here.
Before I go, I’ll be interviewing Ellen Allien, who is the founder of BPitch Control, about her label and her forthcoming album, Dust, which will be released in May, this Monday. If you have a question you’d like me to ask Ellen, email me at solipsisticnation@gmail.com.
See you next week!
- Ametsub “Faint Dazzlings”
- Lusine “Two Dots (Reverse Engineered)”
- Deru “You Haunt Me”
- Redshape “Bound (Part 1 and 2)”
- Fuck Buttons “Surf Solar”
- Clark “Gonk Roughage”
- The Tuss “Last Rushup 10”
- Jega “Aerodynamic”
- DJ Hidden “The Traveller”
- Broken Note “Meltdown”
- Deru “Peanut Butter & Patience”
- Harmonic 313 “Word Problems”
- Reso “Onslaught”
- Monolake “Titan”
- KiloWatts “Everglade”
- Roberto Rodriguez “Moonraker (Phonique Remix)”
- Burial & Four Tet “Moth”
- Dataworx “Control”
- Telefon Tel Aviv “The Worst Thing In The World (Gaiser’s Possibly The Universe Remix)”
- Telefon Tel Aviv “You Are The Worst Thing In The World”
- The Sight Below “No Place For Us” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Ben Frost “Killshot”